Dear Readers, Spring is upon us, summer approaches. This is the season when we start to think about how to spend our vacation, those precious few days when we have a chance to escape our daily routine. At last, some leisure time to spend with family, friends or maybe just ourselves. This is our chance to renew ourselves, get fresh perspective, see the world, learn about other people, have fun, relax. But where to go? What can I afford? Where can we take the kids? Who's a good travel agent?

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As Assistant Managing Editor for Features, Alice Short oversees Health, Food, Home, Travel and Fashion content for the Los Angeles Times. She has worked at the paper for more than 20 years and has edited a number of Times publications, including the Life & Style daily features section, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and Calendar Weekend. She has also worked as Daily Calendar Editor and Assistant Metro Editor. Her current position involves oversight of five blogs (Daily Dish, All the Rage, Jacket Copy, L.A. at Home and Travel Deals & News)

Henrietta Seipp Barnard, who with her husband, Slim, was host of a popular television travel program in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, has died. She was 99. Barnard died Friday in her sleep of heart failure, according to her son, Larry. A Los Angeles native, Barnard attended Redondo Beach High School and married Lawrence, better known as "Slim," shortly after graduation.

Riding the rapids of the Colorado River is on my list of things to do soon. So is traveling the great trout streams of Idaho and Wyoming. Alaska is in my future too. Until I get there, I'll settle for daydreaming as I stroll the aisles of the annual Great Western Sports RV & Travel show. It's back at the Anaheim Convention Center starting today and running through Jan. 5. I'm not the only daydreamer in Orange County.